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Health Assessment in the Big Data Era
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Health Assessment in the Big Data Era

A special issue of Big Data and Cognitive Computing (ISSN 2504-2289).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 49517

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis

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School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Greece
Interests: circular economy; technical–economic project evaluation; environmental and energy economics; environmental and energy behavior; environmental performance of firms; quantitative methods
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Dr. František Babič

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Centre of Business Information Systems, Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of electrical ingineering and informatics, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
Interests: data analytics; healthcare informatics; knowledge management; clinical decision support systems
Dr. Michal Rosen-Zvi

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Healthcare informatics, IBM Research, Haifa Research Labs, Israel
Interests: healthcare informatics; machine learning for healthcare; clinical genomic analysis; clinical decision support systems; deep learning for patients; health behavior; causal inference of healthcare data

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Healthcare represents an important data source for different purposes, such as supporting diagnostic processes, predicting epidemics, improving quality of life, and avoiding preventable casualties. Traditional Machine Learning or statistical methods for data processing and analysis are no longer sufficient, as they are adapted to new conditions or replaced by novel methods suitable for large volumes of offline data or online continuous data streams. The main objective of this Special Issue is to collect papers with different views and approaches to this domain; methods motivated by the need to improve Healthcare, reduce costs, and achieve more effective diagnostics. In the Big Data Era, the volume of digital information continuously increases, and requires our attention not only from the technological point of view, but from the perspective of trust and ethics as well. The large volumes of data available in this field provide new opportunities to develop various technological solutions, all the while having the patients’ interest as a priority. Automated decision-making in Healthcare must respect existing differences and specific conditions in order to operate properly and correctly. It requires considering a veracity of available data with the strong influence on the reliability of developed methods and tools.

This Special Issue aims at providing selected examples of approaches and case studies where such advanced methods are found beneficial and have a positive impact on patients’ lives. It will be of reference on how Βig Data Analytics can help improve Healthcare, better monitor health and medicine related issues, as well as address the issues of reducing costs and increasing economic benefits.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis
Dr. František Babič
Dr. Michal Rosen-Zvi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Data Processing
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Visualization
  • Healthcare IoT
  • Smart Networks
  • Social Media Data
  • Online Behavior
  • Clinical Decision Support Systems
  • Trust and Ethics

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The Emerging Role of Blockchain Technology Applications in Routine Disease Surveillance Systems to Strengthen Global Health Security
by Vijay Kumar Chattu, Anjali Nanda, Soosanna Kumary Chattu, Syed Manzoor Kadri and Andy W Knight
Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2019, 3(2), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc3020025 - 8 May 2019
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Blockchain technology has an enormous scope to revamp the healthcare system in many ways as it improves the quality of healthcare by data sharing among all the participants, selective privacy and ensuring data safety. This paper explores the basics of blockchain, its applications, [...] Read more.
Blockchain technology has an enormous scope to revamp the healthcare system in many ways as it improves the quality of healthcare by data sharing among all the participants, selective privacy and ensuring data safety. This paper explores the basics of blockchain, its applications, quality of experience and advantages in disease surveillance over the other widely used real-time and machine learning techniques. The other real-time surveillance systems lack scalability, security, interoperability, thus making blockchain as a choice for surveillance. Blockchain offers the capability of enhancing global health security and also can ensure the anonymity of patient data thereby aiding in healthcare research. The recent epidemics of re-emerging infections such as Ebola and Zika have raised many concerns regarding health security which resulted in strengthening the surveillance systems. We also discuss how blockchains can help in identifying the threats early and reporting them to health authorities for taking early preventive measures. Since the Global Health Security Agenda addresses global public health threats (both infectious and NCDs); strengthen the workforce and the systems; detect and respond rapidly and effectively to the disease threats; and elevate global health security as a priority. The blockchain has enormous potential to disrupt many current practices in traditional disease surveillance and health care research. Full article
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Pruning Fuzzy Neural Network Applied to the Construction of Expert Systems to Aid in the Diagnosis of the Treatment of Cryotherapy and Immunotherapy
by Augusto Junio Guimarães, Paulo Vitor de Campos Souza, Vinícius Jonathan Silva Araújo, Thiago Silva Rezende and Vanessa Souza Araújo
Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2019, 3(2), 22; https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc3020022 - 9 Apr 2019
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is related to frequent cases of cervical cancer and genital condyloma in humans. Up to now, numerous methods have come into existence for the prevention and treatment of this disease. In this context, this paper aims to help predict [...] Read more.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is related to frequent cases of cervical cancer and genital condyloma in humans. Up to now, numerous methods have come into existence for the prevention and treatment of this disease. In this context, this paper aims to help predict the susceptibility of the patient to forms treatment using both cryotherapy and immunotherapy. These studies facilitate the choice of medications, which can be painful and embarrassing for patients who have warts on intimate parts. However, the use of intelligent models generates efficient results but does not allow a better interpretation of the results. To solve the problem, we present the method of a fuzzy neural network (FNN). A hybrid model capable of solving complex problems and extracting knowledge from the database will pruned through F-score techniques to perform pattern classification in the treatment of warts, and to produce a specialist system based on if/then rules, according to the experience obtained from the database collected through medical research. Finally, binary pattern-classification tests realized in the FNN and compared with other models commonly used for classification tasks capture results of greater accuracy than the current state of the art for this type of problem (84.32% for immunotherapy, and 88.64% for cryotherapy), and extract fuzzy rules from the problem database. It was found that the hybrid approach based on neural networks and fuzzy systems can be an excellent tool to aid the prediction of cryotherapy and immunotherapy treatments. Full article
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Constrained Optimization-Based Extreme Learning Machines with Bagging for Freezing of Gait Detection
by Syed Waqas Haider Shah, Khalid Iqbal and Ahmad Talal Riaz
Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2018, 2(4), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc2040031 - 15 Oct 2018
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The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a paradigm shift from slow and manual approaches to fast and automated systems. It has been deployed for various use-cases and applications in recent times. There are many aspects of IoT that can be used for the assistance of [...] Read more.
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a paradigm shift from slow and manual approaches to fast and automated systems. It has been deployed for various use-cases and applications in recent times. There are many aspects of IoT that can be used for the assistance of elderly individuals. In this paper, we detect the presence or absence of freezing of gait in patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease (PD) by using the data from body-mounted acceleration sensors placed on the legs and hips of the patients. For accurate detection and estimation, constrained optimization-based extreme learning machines (C-ELM) have been utilized. Moreover, in order to enhance the accuracy even further, C-ELM with bagging (C-ELMBG) has been proposed, which uses the characteristics of least squares support vector machines. The experiments have been carried out on the publicly available Daphnet freezing of gait dataset to verify the feasibility of C-ELM and C-ELMBG. The simulation results show an accuracy above 90% for both methods. A detailed comparison with other state-of-the-art statistical learning algorithms such as linear discriminate analysis, classification and regression trees, random forest and state vector machines is also presented where C-ELM and C-ELMBG show better performance in all aspects, including accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. Full article
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The Internet and the Anti-Vaccine Movement: Tracking the 2017 EU Measles Outbreak
by Amaryllis Mavragani and Gabriela Ochoa
Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2018, 2(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc2010002 - 16 Jan 2018
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In the Internet Era of information overload, how does the individual filter and process available knowledge? In addressing this question, this paper examines the behavioral changes in the online interest in terms related to Measles and the Anti-Vaccine Movement from 2004 to 2017, [...] Read more.
In the Internet Era of information overload, how does the individual filter and process available knowledge? In addressing this question, this paper examines the behavioral changes in the online interest in terms related to Measles and the Anti-Vaccine Movement from 2004 to 2017, in order to identify any relationships between the decrease in immunization percentages, the Anti-Vaccine Movement, and the increased reported Measles cases. The results show that statistically significant positive correlations exist between monthly Measles cases and Google queries in the respective translated terms in most EU28 countries from January 2011 to August 2017. Furthermore, a strong negative correlation (p < 0.01) exists between the online interest in the term ‘Anti Vaccine’ and the Worldwide immunization percentages from 2004 to 2016. The latter could be supportive of previous work suggesting that conspiracist ideation is related to the rejection of scientific propositions. As Measles require the highest immunization percentage out of the vaccine preventable diseases, the 2017 EU outbreak could be the first of several other diseases’ outbreaks or epidemics in the near future should the immunization percentages continue to decrease. Big Data Analytics in general and the analysis of Google queries in specific have been shown to be valuable in addressing health related topics up to this point. Therefore, analyzing the variations and patterns of available online information could assist health officials with the assessment of reported cases, as well as taking the required preventive actions. Full article
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Doppler Radar-Based Non-Contact Health Monitoring for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Review
by Vinh Phuc Tran, Adel Ali Al-Jumaily and Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam
Big Data Cogn. Comput. 2019, 3(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc3010003 - 1 Jan 2019
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Today’s rapid growth of elderly populations and aging problems coupled with the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other health related issues have affected many aspects of society. This has led to high demands for a more robust healthcare monitoring, diagnosing and [...] Read more.
Today’s rapid growth of elderly populations and aging problems coupled with the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other health related issues have affected many aspects of society. This has led to high demands for a more robust healthcare monitoring, diagnosing and treatments facilities. In particular to Sleep Medicine, sleep has a key role to play in both physical and mental health. The quality and duration of sleep have a direct and significant impact on people’s learning, memory, metabolism, weight, safety, mood, cardio-vascular health, diseases, and immune system function. The gold-standard for OSA diagnosis is the overnight sleep monitoring system using polysomnography (PSG). However, despite the quality and reliability of the PSG system, it is not well suited for long-term continuous usage due to limited mobility as well as causing possible irritation, distress, and discomfort to patients during the monitoring process. These limitations have led to stronger demands for non-contact sleep monitoring systems. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the current state of non-contact Doppler radar sleep monitoring technology and provide an outline of current challenges and make recommendations on future research directions to practically realize and commercialize the technology for everyday usage. Full article
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